Vertex

Fixed. All customers have been given twice the number of tokens they bought as an apology for this issue

Currently we are experiencing issues with our provider tryspeed.

If you are a customer, we apologize for the inconvenience as we don't know who you are, and so we have not idea who to give credits to.

We hope to resolve this matter as soon as possible. If you bought some credits recently, please reach out to

on Signal.

Verify the reputation before doing business with someone.

WoT 🤝 Decentralised Markeplace

We've collaborated with @Ray Buni so that our scores are correctly displayed on @profilestr.

Pagerank (either global or personalized) is a number between 0 and 1, so it's not obvious how to normalized it to 0-100, where 100 means very high reputation.

And we are back online.

We just moved our database to this new and optimize nostr-sqlite package.

https://github.com/vertex-lab/nostr-sqlite

Our relay will be down for a few minutes for maintenance.

Web of Trust 🤝 Rate Limiting

We are collaborating with

and the

premium relay to design a general purpose rate-limiting system powered by Nostr's Web of Trust.

As Nostr scales, we believe this will be a game-changer for services that don’t monetize directly or prefer not to. By leveraging open source DVMs, this system can help reduce abuse—like spam and denial-of-service attacks—while still keeping access open and user-friendly.

Communities need curators. Curators need automated and configurable filters to avoid being overwhelmed by a sea of spam.

We provide these tools

One DVM is all you need to display great profiles in your app. Learn more https://vertexlab.io/docs/nips/verify-reputation-dvm/

Stoner numbers...fixed!

I would like to thank

for accepting my application. It's such a relief to be able to work on my passion full time.

But make no mistake, ethical, open monetization is still our priority.

Bots on nostr are just getting started. Open protocols make them unstoppable.

How are you going to deal with them moving forward?

Web of trust topography changes so fast with LLM personas, that ranks just a few hours old will be stale

Listening to

TFTC rip with

on social credit scores, and on how to navigate a world increasingly full of bots and impersonators.

We all agree being linked to an identity "issued by" a central authority is not the way...it's a dangerous path to censorship and control.

On the other hand if everyone is free to manage their online identities we will drown in an ocean of noise, so web of trust is the natural way to fix it.

Vertex is the first reliable, trustworthy, real time web of trust solution for open social protocols.

NEW: Throw anything (npub, hex, nip05) at npub.world and it will understand.

In search or URL.

🚀

Early days in the web of trust DVM specs, things still very much in flux, but we would love to see other providers implementing them.

Can't wait to see more clients upgrading their UX effortlessly, and for users to easily swap out providers.

Our reputation is our most important asset, but from a consumer standpoint ruggability should be minimized.

OPEN PROTOCOL INTEROPERABILITY FTW!

First

, then #Olas.

Bullish

Our work with npub.world hopefully setting a new standard of quality for clients with regards to profile information.

Accurate, pure signal, and FAST

npub.world keeps improving 🌎

Search is much better on descriptions now, so you can use it to find profiles by topics.

E.g. "bitcoin wallet"

Our own

killing it with the latest version of the Search Profiles DVM 🤺

Announcing npub.world 🌎, the most powerful profile search in nostr.

Powered by

relay and web of trust services, it allows you to find profiles and reputable followers so you can -finally!- find exactly who you are looking for.

Alpha version but quite solid and fast in our tests!

Try it out:

https://npub.world

Here is the draft PR to the DVM repo, if you'd like to have a look or join the conversation!

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/data-vending-machines/pull/38

🚀 Announcing Vertex

A fast, reliable and open source Web of Trust DVM service based on the Personalized Pagerank algorithm.

After months of ideation, research and building, we (

and

) are ready to offer developers and builders the most powerful and easy-to-use social graph tools.

We also are open sourcing the code under the MIT license and started the conversation around DVM specs to encourage transparency and interoperability.

Three DVMs are the starting point:

• Verify Reputation
• Recommend Follows
• Sort Authors

Ask us anything and visit our website at https://vertexlab.io

Hello world!